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No. 382,751. 8 Patented May 15, 1888.

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WASH-BOARD.

$PEQIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,751, dated May 15, 1888. Application filed September 23, 1887. Serial No. 250,516. (No model.)

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY S. BREWINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Wash- Boards, of which the following is a specifica.

tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

- This invention relates to certain improvements in wash-boards, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the waslrboard with the improvement attached. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of a part of Fig. 1 on line 00 m. Fig. 3 is a partial side view of one of the legs, showing the grooved plate and a bracket which sustains one arm of the roller-frame.

A is an ordinary wash-board, having a corrugated plate, A. On the outside of each leg B of the frame of the wash-board Ais a grooved plate, G,secured at each end thereof by ascrew, c. The plate 0 has a dovetailed groove, 0, as seen in Fig. 2.

D D are brackets, as shown in section, Fig. 2, and the side view, Fig. 3. On the inside of these brackets D, at the base, are dovetailed projecting slides d, which are neatly fitted in the grooves c in the side plates, 0. The rollerframe Ehas two arms, e 6, between which is a roller, F, having a corrugated surface, of any suitable material-such as a sheet of indiarubber or similar material-placed around a wooden roller. This roller F rotates freely by .its shaftf, which is journaled in the arms G6.

In the lower ends of arms ee are holes a e, through which are entered the pins G, which are made as shown in Fig. 2viz., with'a head, 9, cylindrical part 9', square part 9, and screwthread 9'. The pin G is passed through the hole 6' of arm 6, and the square part g is'inserted in a square hole in the bracket D, and

then the pin is secured by the nut on the screw.

9'. The arms are free to revolve 011 the pin G, so that the roller can be thrown overxin front of the washboard to place thereon the clothes to be washed. Theslides d, on the inside of the brackets D, which sustain the rollerframe, can be moved freely to and fro in the grooves. The roller thus carried when traveling over the clothes toagitate them can be pressed down to squeeze the water out of them, just as the hands are employed, and when'the clothes are duly cleansed, the roller is used as a squeezer to force all the water from them.

I claim- In an improvement for wash boards, the

combination of the roller F, sustained in the arms e e, the handle E, the brackets D, having dovetail slides d, and the grooved plates 0,- attached to the sides of a Wash-board, as described.

In testimony that I claimthe foregoing as my own I hereto affix my signature in presence of v two witnesses. v

' HENRY s. BREWINGTON.

Witnesses: A

PH. H. HOFFMAN, HENRY B. HEMMETER." 

